I'm already on that list, though I seem to be managing thus far. I
figured out why itunes is sucking so hard, by the way. Apparently
it's trying to "determin gapless playback". On over 80 thousand
items. Over the wireless network. This is going to take, like, until
next year. I just left it in the doc, and at least it's smart enough
to not take up all my CPU when it hasn't got the focus. I can still
tell it's doing its thing though, as the lag is noticable. At least
getting support for ogg and flac wasn't too hard. Now, if only I
could figure out how to stop Microsoft Messenger for Mac from randomly
restarting voiceover...
I'm going to put that strangeness down to microsofts fault. I'll keep
playing with it while I wait for the xcode developer tools to finish
downloading. Not that I want the apple developers tools, but I need a
package manager so that I can install php and do my webdev work, and
for that I need to have gcc and all that other good stuff. So now we
wait for 199mb to come down from apple.com. Then another 200 meg of
packages. All for the like 60 meg php and apache combo. LOL.
on 11-Dec-07, at 10:53 AM, Kevin Reeves wrote:
Hey sam. Welcome to the world of Mac. If you have any questions,
feel free
to email me off list, and also feel free to subscribe to the
voiceover list
at www.macvisionaries.com. Have fun.
-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf
Of
Samuel Proulx
Sent: Tuesday, December 11, 2007 7:41 AM
To: talk2
Subject: The Talk2 List A Mac Message
This is an email message written on my new macbook, mostly to see if
I can.
Thus far, I'm loving the machine, even if I did have some minor issues
getting things started. I spent several hours trying to install an
application yesterday afternoon. I was trying to run it to get an
installation thingy to come up, and it just wasn't happening
for me. All I had to do was go copy it into my applications folder.
At least I finally did figure it out. The main irritation is itunes.
Itunes, even on the mac, still sucks monkey balls. Once the library
gets
over sixty thousand items or so, it's slow as a retarded monkey, and
crashes
if you move too fast. It also has extreme issues coping with
network shares
inside the itunes library. I need to find a new media player, it
looks
like! The only other irritation is mail: it reads from and status
before
the message subject. I need to figure
out how to reorder the columns. Once I do that, it'll be good.
Otherwise, I set the entire thing up without any help at all from
anyone.
The tutorial gave me enough information to get started with voiceover
without overwhelming me, and completing the mac setup assistant was
good
practice. Access to safari works, it's
just...different from the standard jaws web access we're all used to.
I'm sure I'd be able to do whatever I needed to with safari, it'll
just take
some getting used to. I haven't played with ichat yet, but that's
next on
my big bad list of things to do. That, and track down
where they put my terminal! I want it now. Anyway, I've been doing
this for like 10 hours or so, up all night...my brain is mush. I
think it's
time to go do something else, now, perhaps. How do I send this? I
need to
go find the hot-key. Wow. Spell checker. It works.
Did you miss a message? Well, don't.
http://www.mail-archive.com/talk2%40andrelouis.com/
has it for you. Never miss a Talk2 message again.
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